China Takes Hard-Line In COVID-19 Fight

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Volunteers and workers in Shanghai have erected metal barriers in multiple districts to block off small streets and entrances to apartment complexes as China hardens its strict “zero-COVID” approach in its largest city. On social media, people posted videos of the new barriers with some expressing anger over the measures. In one video, residents broke down the mesh fence barricade. The business media Caixin reported the barriers were put up in several neighborhoods in Shanghai’s financial district. Buildings where cases have been found sealed up their main entrances, with a small opening for pandemic prevention workers to pass through. China reported 21,796 new community transmitted infections on Sunday, the vast majority being asymptomatic cases in Shanghai.